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    Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the...
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  • Nigger Heaven is a novel written by Carl Van Vechten, and published in October 1926. The book is set during the Harlem Renaissance in the United States...
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  • Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964), American writer and photographer Helen Van Vechten (1868–1949), American printer of fine press books Alice Van Vechten Brown...
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    Firecrackers, a Realistic Novel is a 1925 novel by American author Carl Van Vechten. It is one of several fictional works published that same year which...
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    career. In 1914, Marinoff married American writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten. The two were introduced through mutual friends in the summer of 1912...
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    Writings (1971) Stein, Gertrude; van Vechten, Carl (1986), Burns, Edward (ed.), The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913–1946, New York: Columbia...
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    Renaissance. Among his close friends and colleagues were Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten. Taylor's work is in the collection of numerous institutions such as:...
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    Updike, Carl Van Vechten, Willa Cather, H.L. Mencken, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Langston Hughes. Knopf helped Carl Van Vechten launch writers...
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    Beaton, Man Ray, and Carl Van Vechten, among others. She married actor Peter Van Eyck in 1940, but the marriage was unsuccessful. Van Eyck was the father...
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    included towering figures Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Malcolm X, Carl Van Vechten, Picasso, Jean Miotte, Ollie Harrington, Nikki Giovanni, Ishmael Reed...
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    his best friend and writer, Arna Bontemps, and patron and friend, Carl Van Vechten, he wrote two volumes of autobiography, The Big Sea and I Wonder as...
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    However, it also depended on the patronage of white Americans, such as Carl Van Vechten and Charlotte Osgood Mason, who provided various forms of assistance...
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    model of the Harlem Renaissance, his portraits and sculptures taken by Carl Van Vechten, Richmond Barthé and George Platt Lynes among others. François "Féral"...
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    Portrait of Anna May Wong by Carl Van Vechten, 1932, a favorite photograph of hers....
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  • sixty per cent of the book, in four installments. As for her friends, Carl Van Vechten liked it; Henry McBride thought it was too commercial; Ernest Hemingway...
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    campus buildings that contribute to the historic district include: The Carl Van Vechten Gallery was built in 1888. It served as the school's gymnasium before...
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  • famous tango in concert music is Isaac Albeniz' little Tango in D." Carl Van Vechten has said, "The Tango in D is striking, and crosses some pretty stiles...
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    and had a large gay and lesbian following that included photographer Carl Van Vechten. During the early 1920s, she reportedly lived in Harlem with dancer...
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    Ray in Paris, on June 16, 1934, making "wild eyes" for photographer Carl Van Vechten Man Ray, Paris, 1975, photographed by Lothar Wolleh Man Ray and Tristan...
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    a happy ending is a 1924 novel by Carl Van Vechten. The novel exists in the same fictional universe as Van Vechten's previous novel, The Blind Bow-boy...
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  • the Harlem Renaissance such as Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Carl Van Vechten. Live music – from classical and ragtime to jazz and blues – was a...
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    'Raisin'". The Los Angeles Times. June 3, 1961. p. A7. "Extravagant Crowd, Carl Van Vechten photographic exhibit at Yale University Library". Retrieved July 21...
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    James Branch Cabell School", which included such figures as Mencken, Carl Van Vechten and Elinor Wylie. A great deal of Cabell's work consists of the Biography...
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    Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1959...
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  • experiences of the novel "the awful truth" in a letter to her friend Carl van Vechten. The protagonist is the well-educated, mixed-race Helga Crane, who...
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    Baldwin photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955...
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    blue-gray eyes, Kraft posed for George Platt Lynes, Cecil Beaton and Carl Van Vechten. The relationship between Copland and Kraft remained unknown to the...
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    Pierre Balmain and the actress Ruth Ford, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1947...
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    Jackson, photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1962...
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    activists, and novelists of the time, including Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten. Nora Holt died at the age of 89 on January 25, 1974, in Los Angeles...
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